Category: Art

American Art

Three years ago Christo’s mastaba floated majestically, magically, colourfully and enchantingly on the Serpentine.

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Another Diana

Estcourt J Clack sounds like a character from PG Wodehouse; a dyspeptic American millionaire perhaps.

Copernicus

My Cultural Attaché has returned to London after a short spell in Poland and a longer one in the US. She is curating interesting outings paired with excellent restaurants.

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Old Hammersmith

This is what I saw yesterday at the top of the escalators on the first floor of Charing Cross Hospital. It was commissioned “for the benefit of elderly patients” and being one myself I drank it in, so to speak.

Up at the Net

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was thirty-three when this was published in Vanity Fair.

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Masterpieces

Yesterday was the first warm, sunny day in London this month.

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The Year of Wisteria

“Dear patient it is with regret that we have to cancel your appointment with Bogdan the Nurse today.” (sic, text received at 8.00 am this morning)

Who Won the War?

There are two pleasures on Sunday morning: not reading the Sunday papers, and reading The Spectator.

Holy Trinity, Boxted

Holy Trinity, Boxted, is a small ancient church, dating back to the 14th century. I didn’t take a picture because there is a more than adequate one in the East window (above left).

Sister Teresa

Sister Teresa (Keswick) was deputy chief clerk for the Inner London Magistrates’ Courts until she was admitted to a Carmelite monastery in Quidenham, Norfolk thirty-seven years ago.